Declan Hopkins: https://dooskington.com/
His latest Antorum game blogs have been real interesting
Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
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I am a native English speaker and it seemed polite enough to me. How would you phrase the request?
> Hi this is a great article! I don't know if you've ever considered adding TLS to your personal site? I know a lot of people like me really appreciate even small websites having this.
Seems like unnecessarily much ass kissing for a simple request.
IMO, "Please x" is a plenty polite way to ask for x in English, and "I am not going to x" is not rude at all
I always fail to understand when people shy away from simplicity in communication.
How long until we replace `wontfix` tags with `I totally would but I already have a thing that day`
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
This sounds as fake as "marketing-speak". There's nothing wrong with asking "Please do " in the English language, it's plenty polite.
It's not marketing speak. It's getting off on the right foot by saying you like the person's work. Then it's asking more carefully if they've considered it before, in case they have and decided against or weren't able to. Then it's saying you'd appreciate it rather than you require it. Just saying 'please do X' sounds like an email I'd get from a German who doesn't know English very well. It's grammatically correct b…
Counterpoint, I often enjoy conversing with Europeans because it less often sounds like they are bullshitting and more often they just directly say what they mean, compared to fellow American born folks.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's strange to see the downvotes. Why static websites need https [1]. Discussion just two weeks ago at [2]. If I make a polite suggestion with a reason behind my suggestion, I find it incredibly sad that it's a cause for downvotes here at HN. [1] https://www.troyhunt.com/heres-why-your-static-website-needs... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22146291
I don't know if you're not a native English speaker, but 'please do X' is not a polite way to ask someone to do something in English. I know it looks like it is if you look up 'please' in the dictionary, but it really doesn't sound like it in practice to native ears. You made a blunt demand, not a polite request. Also since your username is 'BossingAround' and you were literally bossing someone around in your comment…
Completely disagree as a native English speaker. "Please do foo" is polite. "Please pickup milk after work", "Please forgive me", "Please create a SSL cert for your website".
Tangentially: Same thing happens in code reviews. People become extra soft at objective reasoning!!! The onus is on the offendee, not the offender. Stop being offended so much all the time, you'll live a healthier, happier life. Special treatment, feeling of being entitled for politeness is a slipper slope where everyone is being nice to each other and no one can criticize. Nothing gets done. We don't make progress together like this.
Advice to the sender: Be polite, but assertive. Don't make personal attacks.
Advice to the receiver: Assume good intentions, focus on problem at the hand, accept harsh criticism, don't be offended at little things.
The world would be a better place.
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Hi this is a great article! I don't know if you've ever considered adding TLS to your personal site? I know a lot of people like me really appreciate even small websites having this.
Seems like unnecessarily much ass kissing for a simple request. IMO, "Please x" is a plenty polite way to ask for x in English, and "I am not going to x" is not rude at all I always fail to understand when people shy away from simplicity in communication. How long until we replace `wontfix` tags with `I totally would but I already have a thing that day`
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Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#126This thread os great
Google really kill personal site like these
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#127Whenever I evaluate a technology stack for microservice architecture viability, I implement the same feature identical polyglot persistent microservice then run it through the same load test as all the others. In that way, I can compare and contrast these various technology stacks. I blog about the results here. http://glennengstrand.info So far, I have covered clojure on ring, scala on finatra, java on dropwizard, j…
Great idea for a blog! Is there any reason you have not ventured into the serverless realm? It would be interesting to hear the take on that ecosystem from someone who has such experience with microservice stacks.
That is a great question. You are absolutely correct. I try to evaluate open source technology stacks that are emerging. I do feel like there is growing interest in serverless computing but most companies end up going with AWS Lambda which is not open source. I was wondering if the folks here are considering open source serverless technologies. If so, then which ones are making your short list?
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#128Joey Hess: http://joeyh.name/ Lives out in the sticks and codes embedded stuff in Haskell, usually to automate his life in the backwoods of East Tennessee.
I had never looked into who ran olduse.net, turns out it's Joey Hess. Joey if you're reading this, thank you, I love it!
Re: Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
#129Joey Hess: http://joeyh.name/ Lives out in the sticks and codes embedded stuff in Haskell, usually to automate his life in the backwoods of East Tennessee.
Thanks for posting that. I went down a rabbit hole reading his off the grid material. I live in a fairly small mountain town but still with a civilized lifestyle: I can easily walk to two health food stores, movie theater, library, and the local food bank where I enjoy volunteering. My wife and I talked about moving ten miles outside of town but decided against it.
I also like Joey’s Haskell projects. Good stuff.
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#130For low-level software, these are great: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/ https://travisdowns.github.io/ https://preshing.com/
Good blogs, but I wouldn't call them focused on "low-level" software. The material is more of a conventional desktop software development.